Creative Magic

Dorrie Joy lives and works as a prolific multi-disciplinary Artist. She teaches ancestral skills and traditional crafts. She is also a herbalist, forager, poet, writer, international speaker and ceremonial leader. As a painter, she is largely self taught. Her formal studies are in Literature and Ceramics.

For almost 30 years she has been initiated by and trained intimately with Indigenous women and Elders in many areas of ancient craft and ceremony.

Her paintings are held in private collections and public displays and her ceremonial craft is carried and respected globally.

She has travelled widely and lives in the South West UK. A Mother of three and a Grandmother of two, her work is informed by her passion for sustainability, rooted in connection and reciprocity.

We discussed what it means to be a prolific creative and all the ways Dorrie creates.

The joy and tenderness of being a beginner and learning new crafts.

Giving space to our human selves.

Productivity and earning a living through creativity.

Navigating the middle bit when it all just looks a bit of a mess.

The grounding of home and family life: the devotion of motherhood.

The role of intuition.

What she learned about the creative process from her Indigenous teachers.

Forbidden images, imposter syndrome and dealing with online criticism.

Becoming feral and walking to the weathered edge.

The spirit of her work and how she first discovered it.

Dorrie’s website: www.dorriejoy.co.uk

Instagram:@dorrie.joy

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I am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.

· Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.

· We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary...and how we can move beyond this.

· We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it’s problematic and why it’s necessary.

· Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O’Donohue.

· Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.

· She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?

· How she discovered the beauty of our biology.

· Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.

More About Sushmita:

Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita’s spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.

Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com

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Looby is a permaculture teacher and author. She has been teaching permaculture for over 20 years and specialising in the people care ethic of permaculture. She has written 4 books People and Permaculture, 7 ways to think differently, Strands of Infinity and Cultural Emergence. She is co-founder of the Cultural Emergence project - developing a toolkit for personal and collective transformation. Her latest creation is the CEED deck - the Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design deck. She lives on a 20 acre smallholding with her family, Applewood Permaculture Centre in Ludlow, UK, where they run courses She is mother to 2 daughters. And is one of the partners of the Mother Nature project, co-creating resources to empower mothers as natural leaders.

She enjoys gardening, being creative, sitting round fires singing and listening to owls.

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We Discussed

Permaculture and creativity.

Cultural emergence and emergency.

The importance of pattern-seeing.

Expanding our view from breakdown to breakthrough.

Quantum sheep – the fabulous slip of the tongue and where it came from.

Move Your Tools – stop waiting for inspiration to strike.

The emergence of AI art and the increasing need for the human touch.

The power of agency and permission.

The cyclical nature of creativity.

Resources and People mentioned

JUNO

People and Permaculture

Tracy Breathnach

Jules Heavens

Cultural Emergence

Spiritual Emergency

Strands of Infinity

CEED Deck

Creatrix

Jennifer Louden

WORD+image e-course

Womancraft Compendium

SARK

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My guest today is Phyllis Curott, a writer and one of America’s first public Witches. Her 5 international best-selling books have been published in 14 languages, making her the most widely published Wiccan author. Aas a lawyer, she has been an outspoken advocate in the courts and media securing the legal rights of Witches.

Phyllis was named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine. She received the 2018 Service to Humanity Award from the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary and the 2020 Person of the Year Award from Kindred Spirit. Phyllis was the first Wiccan Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and was elected Vice Chair of the 2015 Parliament, creating the Women’s Assembly. New York Magazine has called her teaching on Witchcraft the culture’s “next big idea” and Time Magazine has published her as one of America’s leading thinkers. Her You-Tube series on Wicca has almost 3 million views. Phyllis continues to write, teach, and lecture internationally on the embodied spiritual wisdom of Mother Earth, Nature’s “secret magic” and why the world needs its Witches.

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"There's a wildness within us that yearns to be physical, sensual, animal, free. But fear of this unknown part, of where it might take us and who it might make us, has left us all only half alive." Phyllis Curott, The Witches Wisdom Tarot Guidebook

We started by talking about The Witches Wisdom Tarot that she created with Danielle Barlow. From there we move on to the wisdom of the body and following our instincts. The theme of murmurations comes back again and again...to do with birds, women and magic it is an incredible deep dive conversation weaving magic, books, art and ways of knowing, finding the courage to be out and seen in our creative magic. We also discuss:

Awe, wonder and the power of the liminal

Coming back into the public eye after a period of retreat

Calling women crazy as a way of shutting them down

Breaking the spell of patriarchy.

"It starts with you...but very quickly you realize it's not about you, the world needs you. You've been called." Phyllis Curott

Resources Mentioned

Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods - Lucy H. Pearce

The Witches Wisdom Tarot - Phyllis Curott and Danielle Barlow

Book of Shadows - Phyllis Curott

Burning Woman - Lucy H. Pearce

Music: Alice in Dark Wonderland, Lexin Music

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Clare Jasmine Beloved is an artist based in Liverpool, UK. She says:

“Creating is in my blood and has saved my life over and over – transforming feelings, emotions, life stories, wounds and blocks, dreams and ideas into beauty. My art is awash with large lush goddesses, magic mermaids, sensual sistas, and sacred imagery, symbolism and feelings.The process and the way that I paint and create is very intuitive. I work with many layers to explore my own mythology, using acrylics and mixed media.

My work is also translated into limited edition textile ranges in silks and velvet as well as a beautiful jewellery range.

I am passionate about words – my bed is always laden with books! My first poetry collection Love, Hope and High Heels was published in 2010. It was shortlisted for The Polari Book Prize for new gay and lesbian writing. I have since published poetry and art books and journals and am currently finishing a book about my love story with my late wife and navigating life after her death. Pre-order Somewhere Between Derelict and Divine: Magical Stories to Carry Us All Home...

I developed and curated a large-scale project based on my own way of creating with over 1000 women and girls, which was exhibited at The Tate in a ground-breaking exhibition. This was then taken into many settings and also developed into Big Love Sista, Big Love My Brother.

I am dedicated to creating a body of work in the world and spaces that are ethical, inclusive, diverse, real and down to earth and magical and deeply rooted in community.”

www.clarebeloved.com

Instagram.com@clarebeloved

We talked about:

Facilitating creativity in a range of different settings

Creating safe and inclusive creative spaces

Overcoming a legacy of creative repression

Coming into her own creative power

Art as therapeutic and alchemical

On becoming an accidental wild woman

The power of sharing our stories

Magic and imagination as a way to survive childhood

Seeing the magic in your own story

The magic of the sea - selkies and mermaids

Creating from and through grief

In the Extended Episode we discussed

More about group facilitation.

Her creative haven in Greece

How poems come through to her

A deeper dive into creatively navigating her wife's death from breast cancer and “widow’s fire”.

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Books we mentioned:

Somewhere Between Derelict and Divine: Magical Stories to Carry Us All Home...

She of the Sea

Creatrix: she who makes

Red Tents

Women Who Run with the Wolves

The Way You Do Anything is the Way You Do Everything

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